The question
How close have you come to dying?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Being charged by a white rhino on a walking safari. It came running towards us and I froze, which is the right thing to do. If it had hit us, it would have been goodnight.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2019 source ↗
I don’t think I’ve ever been close to death but I am a nervous flyer, especially during turbulence, so there have been many times where I’ve felt that I was.
When I was about two, I accidentally knocked a boiled kettle on myself. I am scarred, in many ways, from that.
Climbing in Tibet, surfing in Australia and a moment ago by a courgette cutter as I dithered over one of these questions.
Near head-on collision driving from Oklahoma to California back in the 70s.
We Weren’t Born To Follow by Bon Jovi.
With no shoes on in the African bush with my family.
Nappies aren’t fun!
Cars. I’ve got a Tesla at the moment.
The way I left English cricket. I was scapegoated for the Ashes tour in 2013-14 and there was a bitter battle between the England Cricket Board and me for a few years.
A pilot or a ranger in the bush.
Chris Hoy, Adam Peaty, Bradley Wiggins, Chris Bonington, Harry Redknapp, Simone Biles
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